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Monthly updates for July 2015

9 Jul

General availability: Azure Batch

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Batch makes it easy to run large-scale parallel and high-performance computing workloads in Azure.

  • Batch
9 Jul

Azure Site Recovery available in Brazil South

NOW AVAILABLE

Customers can now use Azure Site Recovery to protect and recover their mission critical workloads in the Brazil South region.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Services
9 Jul

General availability: Azure Site Recovery adds disaster recovery and migration of VMware and physical machines

NOW AVAILABLE

Disaster recovery and migration of VMware and physical machines to Azure with Azure Site Recovery is generally available.

  • Azure Site Recovery
7 Jul

Azure Cosmos DB: Order By support and .NET SDK 1.2.0

The latest Azure Cosmos DB update includes support for sorting (Order By) with numbers and strings and string range queries.

  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Services
  • SDK and Tools
  • Features
2 Jul

Azure preview portal Browse improvements

You can refresh the list of resources available from Browse, view the full list of recent resources you've used, and create new resources by using the Add command.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Features
2 Jul

Navigation improvements to the Azure preview portal

We've introduced a new navigation bar that includes breadcrumbs, quick access to start customizing, and the user menu that shows which directory you've signed in to.

  • Microsoft Azure portal
  • Features
1 Jul

Automation: Graphical authoring adds runbook input as data source

Azure Automation adds runbook input parameters as a data source for configuring activity input parameter values.

  • Automation
  • Features
1 Jul

Preview: Azure SQL Database Index Advisor

IN PREVIEW

Use Azure SQL Database Index Advisor to improve your database performance.

  • Azure SQL Database
  • Features
1 Jul

Now available: Media Encoder Premium for Azure Media Services

NOW AVAILABLE

Media Encoder Premium for Azure Media Services offers new and advanced encoding capabilities, including support for MXF and DVCPRO formats, in addition to 4K AVC, multilanguage audio, closed captioning, deinterlacing, and color conversion.

  • Media Services
  • Features

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